Means for wrapping and packing cakes.



F. 0. STONE. MEANS OF WRAPPING AND PACKING CAKES. APPLICATION FILED JULY18. 1910.

1,017,337. Patented Feb. 13,1912.

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MEANS OF WRAPPING AND PACKING CAKES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FENN O. STONE, a citizen of the United States of Amrica, and resident of Cincinnati, county of flamilton, State of Ohio,have invented ce tain new and useful Means of rapping and Packing Cakes,of which the following is a specification.

Bakers cakes are frequently broken upon the edges in their transitbetween baker and consumer. Cakes which are iced suffer in various wayslikewise in transit." C-akes likewise frequently become too hard in thecases of retailers. The margin of profit is so small that heretofore ithas rendered the problem of wrapping and packing' cakes properly, toprevent the aforesaid injuries, one which was difficult of solution.

It is the object of my invention to provide a means which willeffectually protect the edges of any cake, as well as the icing of icedcakes, and preserve the freshness of the cakes, at a cost which is notprohibitive. This object is attained by the meansillustrated in thedrawings, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective view of abox of cakeswrapped and packed in accordance with my invention, parts of the packagebe ing broken away, for clearness of illustration. Fig. 2 is a similarview of a cake and one of my wrappers, the view being uponan enlargedscale. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the card-board strip.

Referring to the parts :-A cake A is laid firstuponastrip of oiledcard-board B, which is of a length equal .to the length of the cake,plus twice its height. The card-board B is transversely scored at b b,the scoring pc curring at a distance from each end equal to the heightof the cake. When the cake is placed upon the card-board, it fitsbetween the upturned ends, which abut against the ends of the cake. Ifit be an iced cake, a piece D of waxed paper of a width and length equalto the width'and the length of the cake is laid upon the top. The cake,the card-board and the waxed paper being thus assembled, are placed in asecond enlarged piece of waxed paper E, which is wrapped the ends in awell known manner The pack- Speciflcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 13, 1912.

Application filed July. 18, 1910. Serial No. 572,479.

age is then placed on edge in a box F, sothat the card-board stands invertical planes.

The cakes are cut preferably of a length equal to twice their height.,Four of the cakes are placed with the bottom of one cake abuttingagainst the top of an adjacent cake, and two of the cakes are placed atone end of the said four cakes, with their tops abutting against theends of the four cakes. This/forms a layer of cakes, which are placed inbox F, whose interior is of the shape of the periphery of the said layerof cakes. The second layer of cakes are arranged similarly to the firstlayer, but the two cakes of said second layer are placed at the oppositefirst layer. When the' cakes are so packed, the edges of the card-boardstrips of the second layer rest upon top of the edges of side of the boxfrom the two cakes of the the card-board strips in the first layer, thusas effectually supporting the package, without the weight being broughtupon the edges of the cakes, as though each cake were packed in anindividual card-board box.

The cost' of the card-board strip'is but a small fraction of what thecost of a cardboardbox would be. The effect of using a separate waxedpaper for the top of the iced cakes, in conjunction with an independentoutside wrapper of oiled paper, is to. keep a layer of air between saidwaxed paper Therefore, the

packages being arranged in layers with the card-board strips standing invertical planes, the individual packages of ad acent layers being soarranged that the weight thereof s carried by the card-board strips.around theassembled parts and folded in at.

ackage of cakes consisting of a se- "of the cake and a Wrapper envelopinthe diyidual packages consisting of a cardboard placed at right anglesto the iositioh of the strip in contact with the bottom and the endspackages in the s j acent layer.

cardboard strip and thecake, the indiv1dua1 STONE packages beingarranged in layers with the Witnesses: cardboard strips standing invertical planes, C. A. EARTH, and-the individual packagesof a layerbeing 7 .WALTER F. MURRAY.

